Now your talking like a realist artist
mando
On Apr 11, 2009, at 8:46 PM, Saul Ostrow wrote:
Why would a chair have an essence - its design and it manufacture
may describe
a chair's essence - but this would not refect its function but
perhaps the
act of sitting
On 4/11/09 11:35 PM, "armando baeza" <[email protected]> wrote:
When one describes a chair, one may say the essence of the chair is
( something to sit on).In an "art experssion" it can be a log, a rock,
a stool, a human or any thing one can sit on. What is the essence of
a bottle" a flower, a human. I t exist's because you recognize it.
You express it's form, which differs from any one else. yours is
unique.
mando
On Apr 11, 2009, at 8:03 PM, [email protected] wrote:
What is the essence, why it exists and how it is formed?
Boris Shoshensky
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---------- Original Message ----------
From: armando baeza <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: armando baeza <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Heidegger: truth and art
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:00:36 -0700
The purpose of art is to express the essence to your pleasure and sit
back and enjoy.
mando
On Apr 11, 2009, at 7:26 AM, Michael Brady wrote:
On Apr 11, 2009, at 10:17 AM, Saul Ostrow wrote:
""The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they
are
perceived and not as they are known. The technique of art is to
make objects
'unfamiliar', to make forms difficult, to increase the difficulty
and length
of perception because the process of perception is an aesthetic
end in itself
and must be prolonged." (Shklovsky, "Art as Technique")"
Aha, back to the Russian Formalists and our brief mention of them
last August! Ta da!
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